REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

• Significant experience of working within a similar role.
• Significant experience of working within a technical digital environment.
• Knowledge solution architecture practices.
• Ability to multi-task, working on several projects at any given time.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Run the technical assurance process ensuring all projects are assessed in line with delivery deadlines.
• Record the technical decisions made by the technical design authorities and the reasons they were made.
• Champion the use of assurance tools and processes technical standards.
• Coordinate and lead the assessment of project outputs to ensure that they meet approved solution designs.
• Build and maintain a set of assurance artifacts and collaborate with delivery teams to ensure they adhere to them.
• Act as a central point of contact for all technical assurance queries.
• Identify gaps or deviations from standards and escalate to the appropriate stakeholders.
• Establish effective working relationships with the PMO and support them at project gate reviews.
• Participate in project initiation to provide guidance on assurance requirements.
• Provide training on the assurance tools and processes.
• Participating in the running of the technical assurance boards.
• Produce dashboard reports on all on-going assurance activities.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED IN THE ROLE

• Extensive experience across policing, law enforcement or criminal justice.
• Evidence of excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Ability to negotiate and influence decision making in an environment without direct authority over others.
• Evidence of effective stakeholder management, able to manage and communicate with stakeholders of varying levels of seniority.
• Ability and confidence to work and think independently as well as part of a team.
• Ability to act with discretion, maintaining confidentiality where appropriate